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Dictionary:
What do you ride?
I'm on a yamaha v-star 650. Its my first bike. been on it for 8 months, owe my pops 5 grand for it :laugh: . I'm interested in getting a Standard bike such as a honda cb750. Also i'm interested in learning to do most of my own maintenance like adjusting valves and syncing the carbs so i can save some cash. I want to hear from others how difficult this type of stuff is. I do oil changes, oil and air filters, lubricate pedals and levers but not much else.
Oh yea, from Tennessee, err lived in Georgia but rode down here to Alabama for the summer. Nice riding down here.
cracker:
I ride a kawasaki vulcan 1500 classic, I do all my own work including tranny and engine rebuild suspension electrical. It's only as hard as you let it be. I love it so it's a piece of cake.Nothing more rewarding that running down a gremlin and fixing it. Ron
PepeLep:
I just got a 1980 Goldwing GL1100 trike conversion a month ago. It's the first motorcycle I've ever owned. My wife wanted a trike, so we got a trike. It only has around 45,000 original miles on it. It's nice.
I don't know how to do anything on it. I'll eventually learn the basic stuff, but I'm not real big on mechanic work. This one runs good. It's mostly one to learn on so we can buy a new one later for retirement.
Dictionary:
--- Quote from: cracker on June 12, 2012, 01:57:02 pm ---I ride a kawasaki vulcan 1500 classic, I do all my own work including tranny and engine rebuild suspension electrical. It's only as hard as you let it be. I love it so it's a piece of cake.Nothing more rewarding that running down a gremlin and fixing it. Ron
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I want to start at the beginning. Aquiring some tools and a Clymers manual. Now money is quite tight so i'm thinking about getting some wrenches and a ratchet or two with various sprockets at a pawn shop. Would this be a bad idea?
Also i feel like such an idiot when it comes to this kind of stuff. I've been reading over how the transmission works on a bike from like 3 different sources and i still can't understand it. I'm determined though
PepeLep, I've seen quite a few of those Goldwing trikes, especially when i was down in florida the past week. Err i'm pretty sure they were Honda Goldwings
JW_Halverson:
I live in this little suburb of Sturgis, South Dakota called Rapid City. As far as I am concerned I would be fine if every last morotcycle in the world suddenly evaporated or turned to dust. While a select few of you have been to the Sturgis Motorhome Rally and Trailer Park, most of you have only seen photos and short videos. Back in the day when it was a biker hangout it was actually fairly safe. Nowadays it is almost exclusively the domain of the brand new bike owning rapidly greying segment of society trying to regain their youth. Few, if any, of them have much experience on bikes with far too much power for their skill level. Worse yet, so many of them get "Sturgis-itis" and all good sense and caution flees their minds. They all rail against "cages" (a.k.a. cars), but then ignore the most basic rules of the roads.
I can't tell you how many times I have nearly hit a bike rider (note I did not say biker) pulling a stupid stunt. Don't blame motorists when you follow a line of bikes thru a yellow light that actually turned red about 5 bikes ahead of you. It's gotten so bad at the Sturgis Rally that the real bikers just don't go anymore, I know a Bandito that claims it "just ain't safe anymore". One week of "Born To Be Wild" does not make up for 51 weeks sitting behind a desk pushing a pencil being "Born To Be Mild".
Dictionary, ride cautious. Ride safe. Ride long. And avoid Sturgis.
(Definition of Sturgis: World's Largest Theme Costume Party)
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